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World Down Syndrome Day Down Syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, affects about one in every 700 babies born. It’s a genetic disorder that’s typically associated with physical growth delays, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and characteristic facial features.

The condition is caused by a problem with chromosome 21, wherein there are three copies of that gene instead of two. Doctors aren’t sure why this happens, and there aren’t any links to the environment or anything the parents did or didn’t do.

Although Down Syndrome cannot be cured, early treatment can help the persons with it to have productive lives well into adulthood. Children with Down Syndrome can often benefit from speech therapy, occupational therapy, and exercises to help im-

Lime ... “to hang around idly” or “to go out on the town.”

Source: The Dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole by the late educator and historian Lito Valls. The Limin’ Times brings you all the news about when and where to “lime” in the British Virgin Islands.

prove their motor skills.

Locally, such persons receive support from the Social Development Department as well as at the Eslyn Henley Richiez Learning Centre.

Today (Thursday) is celebrated as Down Syndrome Awareness Day. To show support for persons living with the condition, the public is encouraged to wear brightly colored long or printed socks, or even three socks for three chromosomes.

You can share the love by posting pictures of your artful socks to social media with the hashtag #lotsofsocksbvi.

You can also show support to persons in the BVI community with Down Syndrome by purchasing one of their branded t-shirts by calling call the BVI Autism Centre at 4683672.

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When you work in publishing, social media is ordinarily just part of the job, but occasionally, a discussion online will catch my eye. Recently I was inspired by a thread on the BVI Community Board all about catching rides.

While the process is totally informal, the thread reminded me that we all have different rules for how we conduct ourselves in the process of getting from point A to point B. For context, although I am not currently much of a hitcher, it was my primary mode of commuting, getting to various assignments, and making my way to special occasions for about 5 or 6 years.

Top of my personal list of hitching rules is to leave the vehicle exactly as I meet it. This means that no matter how much I may be sweating, I won’t touch a window lever, unless the driver tells me I should. Regardless of how awkward the angle of a seat may seem to me, I don’t make any adjustments. And I’d never dream of requesting a change to the driver’s musical choices. Some might say that as a hitcher, I have been invited into a person’s vehicle and it’s okay to make myself comfortable. Why such strict rules? Because I know a little bit about “island jeep” problems. I might crank down the window only to learn that once down, it never rolls back Limin’Times Entertainment Guide

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up again. If there’s a hole in the floorboard of the jeep, my seat adjustment might cause me to fall right through the bottom and onto the road.

Also high on the list is that I don’t want to be dropped at my door. What it is about about woman hitching alone that gives a man the idea that she is in the market for a boyfriend? Anyway, it did not take me long to put up all the guards against this, including guarding my privacy. Have you ever been surprised at your door by someone whose only connection to you is that they once dropped you off at home? I don’t recommend it.

Another important rule is to be swift whenever entering and exiting a vehicle. Of course you don’t want to rush or be unsafe, but it’s important to remember that you are most likely blocking traffic so it’s good to make every second count.

Last but not least is to hail. I know that not everyone is able to pick up hitchers, but personally, I want everyone who is able to do it to know that I am not waiting for my boo or a taxi to come for me, so out goes the hand.

Next week I’ll share my rules as a driver, but in the meantime, let us know your rules of the road on the Limin Times Facebook page.

Pool Party

Inter-House Sports Come out and support the students of the Elmore Stoutt High School at their inter-house sports day on Wednesday at the A.O. Shirley Grounds from 9am.

Tape Ball & Fun Day On Sunday, Vikings Cricket Club presents Tape Ball and Family Fun Day at Greenland Cricket Grounds 10am.

Awards will be given for first and second place teams as well as MVP, most runs and most wickets.

Entry is $150 per seven-man team and entertainment will be provided by DJ Flava. There will also be a bouncy castle for the kids to enjoy.

This Saturday, Black Pearl Market Group presents their All White Villa Pool Party from 2–10pm.

Entertainment will be provided by DJ Avalanche, The Shinning Lights of Zion of the Zion Hill MethDJ Big Boss and host Miss Universe BVI. Tickets are odist Church presents Story Telling Night on Friday at $120 all inclusive and can be bought by calling 547- the church courtyard.

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Jenny Wheatley, Elmore Stoutt and Madlene Blyden.

Zion Sounds will also provide entertainment.

Story Telling

Weekend Games

This weekend (Friday and Saturday) come out to the ESHS Invitational and Alumni games at the MultiPurpose Complex. Teams will participate in basketball and volleyball games. Teams from Virgin Island School of Technical Studies, Bregado Flax Educational Centre, ESHS Jr. Varsity will all participate, and the featured games will be between BVIHS/ESHS Alumni and ESHS. On Friday, games begin at 6pm and on Saturday games will begin 5pm. Please see the ad on page 3 for full details on games.

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Service of Recognition On Sunday, come out to the 15th Annual Service of Recognition in honor of Virgin Islands Unsung Heroes for selfless services and outstanding contribution to the BVI. Honorees are Sharleen DeBreo, MBE, Erma Vanterpool, Patrick Harrigan and Xavier ‘Dag’ Samuels (posthumous). The service starts at 10am at New Life Baptist Church.

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THURSDAY – MAR 21 POCKWOOD POND IRENE’S – Reggae & Dancehall Thursday EAST END

LITTLE APPLE BAY – Sebastian’s Hotel & Seaside Grille Restaurant opens 8am-9pm. Happy Hour 3-6pm

EMILE’S – Happy Hour 3-5pm

ZION HILL METHODIST CHURCH COURTYARD – Story Telling 7pm

CANE GARDEN BAY

TRELLIS BAY

PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm.

Evolution Band 6:30–9:30pm

TRELLIS BAY MARKET – Vybez & Chill BBQ Night. Full menu & live DJ 6-10pm

PARADISE CLUB – Open 11am-until. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Jalena live 6pm

ROAD TOWN

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until WEST END LITTLE APPLE BAY – Sebastian’s Hotel & Seaside Grille Restaurant opens 8am-9pm. Happy Hour 3-6pm FRIDAY – MAR 22

SATURDAY – MAR 23 MULTI-PURPOSE COMPLEX – ESHS Games, please see ad on pg 3 CHICKENS BAR – DJ Carly Cartel & DJ Grimm THE VAULT – Free Up Saturday w/Turbo Sounds 9pm SUNNY CARIBBEE PARKING LOT – Treasures of the BVI Troupe Fundraising car wash

ROAD TOWN

CANE GARDEN BAY

MULTI-PURPOSE COMPLEX – ESHS Games, please see ad on pg 3

PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm.

Evolution Band 6:30–9:30pm

LYNDON BAR – Turbo Sounds RAMON BAR – DJ Carly Cartel & DJ Rookie LE PETITE SPORTS LOUNGE – DJ Malie 9pm until

PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm. DJ Fuego from 9pm

EAST END

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until

RED ROCK – Quiz Night. Pub-style food & drink specials plus live music

EAST END EMILE’S – Karaoke Night 7pm

EMILE’S – Happy Hour 3-5pm

WEST END

CANE GARDEN BAY

LITTLE APPLE BAY – Sebastian’s Hotel & Seaside Grille Restaurant opens 8am–9pm. Happy Hour 3-6pm

PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Opens 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm. Live music: Jalena 6-9pm

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WEST END

TRELLIS BAY

PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm

TRELLIS BAY MARKET – “BBQ Night” 11am10pm drink specials

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & Dinner daily from 11am until. Beach BBQ w/live music

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SUNDAY – MAR 24 NEW LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH – 15th Annual Service of Recognition 10am

UPCOMING EVENTS CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSERS @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Akeem on steel pan 1–4pm & Marcus Mark 6:30-9:30pm PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch & dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner from 11am until. Happy Hour 4-7pm. Beach BBQ w/live music EAST END EMILE’S – BBQ Dinner Night

TUESDAY – MAR 26 EAST END RED ROCK – Seafood Night CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm. Al the singing Chief 6:30–9:30pm PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm

RED ROCK – Sparkling Brunch 9am-5pm

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until. Happy Hour 4-7pm

GREENLAND

WEST END

GREENLAND CRICKET FIELD – Tape ball and Family fun day 10am

LITTLE APPLE BAY – Sebastian’s Hotel & Seaside Grille Restaurant opens 8am-9pm. Happy Hour 3-6pm

WEST END LITTLE APPLE BAY – Sebastian’s Hotel & Seaside Grille Restaurant opens 8am-9pm. Happy Hour 3-6pm BANANAKEET CAFÉ & HERITAGE INN – Serving Sunday brunch from 9:30am, dinner from 5:30pm TRELLIS BAY TRELLIS BAY MARKET – Serving lunch & dinner from noon-8pm MONDAY – MAR 25

ROAD TOWN A. O. SHIRLEY GROUNDS –ESHS Inter-house Sports 9am LE PETITE SPORTS LOUNGE – Karaoke Night CANE GARDEN BAY PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm.

Elmtones perform 6-9pm

EMILE’S – Mexican Night. Margarita, Tequila & Corona specials plus Mexican food from 4-8pm

PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm

CANE GARDEN BAY

ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until

PUSSER’S @ MYETT’S – Open 10am serving lunch & dinner. Happier Hour 4-7pm. Marcus Mark 6:30–9:30pm PARADISE CLUB – Opens 11am. Lunch and dinner on the beach. Happy hour 4-7pm ELM’S BEACH BAR – Serving lunch & dinner daily from 11am until WEST END LITTLE APPLE BAY – Sebastian’s Hotel & Seaside Grille Restaurant opens 8am-9pm. Happy Hour 3-6pm

Feaster – Apr 21

WEDNESDAY – MAR 27

BVI Spring Regatta – Mar 25–31 I’m not running – Mar 30 Power of Vision – Mar 30 Basketball Tournament – Mar 30-31

EAST END

Bikers Run – Mar 31

EMILE’S – Paint & Sip party group painting class 4-6pm. Call 441-4110 to reserve your space

Feaster – Apr 21

WEST END

Boat Ride – Apr 19

LITTLE APPLE BAY – Sebastian’s Hotel & Seaside Grille Restaurant opens 8am–9pm. Happy Hour 3-6pm

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Car Wash

on Saturday mornings 6:30am. Sessions are $10 per person and you can RSVP by calling 499-8070/5446380.

Art & Craft workshop. Looking for an Art & Craft workshop for your little ones six years and older?

There’s a Sunday class offering ceramics & glass craft, paper, fiber & texture, needle work and much more. For more information, please call or whatsapp 342-7168.

The after school art workshop K’arts located at UP’s Cineplex is on Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30–6:30pm. Registration is $60 and monthly fee is Please see our middle pages for daily events by $100. For more information or to register your child, please call 544-3911/541-6081. our weekly advertisers.

Catch DJ Carly Cartel on Friday night alongside DJ Rookie then on Saturday at Chickens Bar alongside DJ Grimm.

On Friday Turbo Sounds will be at Lyndon Bar from 7pm and at the Vault on Saturday.

Are you an average singer who likes to display your skills? Catch karaoke night at Le Petite Sports Lounge on this and every Wednesday night. Doors open at 7pm. Then on Friday party with DJ Malie from 9pm.

Treasures of the BVI Festival Troupe is having a swimsuit car wash and water sale on Saturday 10am–4pm at Sunny Caribbee Parking Lot. Exterior only is $10 and full package is $20.

Happenins:

Community Notices: Kulture Mas Festival Troupe is having a raffle drawing on April 15th with three great prizes to be won. Tickets are $5 each and are can be bought at Envy Salon, Body Glam and from any Kulture Mass Troupe member. The Troupe is also hosting a get fit for the 65th Festival celebrations with Doneisha Findlay. Zumba session will be hosted in each district Limin’Times Entertainment Guide

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She Devil

An attractive female who is capable of manipulating men into getting their way – Urban Dictionary

Chapter 10: Two Plans Britney locked the front door as soon as she got home and headed straight to her office to check her security camera footage. She was scared of her own shadow ever since the break-in at Troy’s.

At the club, she tried to put up a tough front, but a month later, she wasn’t over it. Meanwhile, security there had already eased off a bit. Angel had said she was sorry to hear about what happened, although Britney couldn’t tell if she was sincere or just gloating. The pair would never be friends, but Britney appreciated that Angel didn’t bask in the news of the break-in.

She also appreciated that Troy finally seemed to be over Angel, which made her much easier to like in Britney’s opinion. As she fast-forwarded through the camera’s footage from the previous night, Britney turned her thoughts to how she could get Troy to get rid of his ex-wife. Britney knew the pair weren’t really together, and thought of each other as nothing more than co-parents to their shared child, but having her in the picture at all annoyed Britney.

I want no competition, she thought to herself. **************** I just got out my class on a high like never before. Remember that paper I told y’all I was writing?

Well it was the best paper from my class and they even want me to present it at a convention in two weeks. I wrote about a female fighting a tough life to better herself – it was practically my life story.

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I called David to share the news as soon as I could, and after hearing my man’s praises, I called Da Don to ask him for a short meeting. He told me to come straight to his office when I got to the club that evening.

“Wassup shorty? Take a seat and rap to me,” he said when I came in.

I told him all about my paper, and how the college wanted me to represent them, and asked if I could take a few vacation days.

“Wow! That’s dope, I’m happy for you,” Da Don said. “Actually I wanted to see you tonight too, remember that job I told you about, it’s a week from now.” He continued, “How about, doing the job and then take a real vacation after? You deserve it.”

Da Don proceeded to tell me the details about the job. Apparently this was very rich man and he requested the presence of one girl to keep him company for the weekend while he is in town. The man was open to sex, but it wasn’t required, he just wanted company. He was also up there in age.

I made a mental note to call David and fill him in about my special job and all about the special vacation afterward.

I excused myself out of Da Don’s office and headed to the backroom to get ready. It was only Tuesday but the club was looking pretty full. It was going to be a long night.

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Instant Family is a sweet dramedy with plenty to teach about how adoption can impact parents and kids alike.

When we meet Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne), they are happily married and, although they love kids, they don’t have any of their own. Instead, their lives are devoted to their business buying houses to renovate and sell. Some teasing from their family reveals that they always imagined they’d be parents, but fear being “old” parents. A half-joking idea that they adopt an older child turns into a class on becoming adoptive parents through the foster care system.

Course facilitators Sharon (Tig Notaro) and Karen (Octavia Spencer) bring the perfect mix of emotion and humor as they disabuse the roomful of hopeful adopters of their ideas about being the next Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side or “rescuing” children the way you’d rescue a puppy from the animal shelter. (Props to the filmmakers for naming and shaming the “white savior” trope that is so common in adoption tales!)

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Class finished, but undecided whether they can handle a foster child, Ellie and Pete decide to attend an awkward meet and greet for prospective parents and foster kids. There, the couple has a tense encounter with 15-year-old Lizzie (Isabela Moner). Later, they conclude that Lizzie confronting them proves she’s a great kid with a good head on her shoulders. They arrange a home visit.

It turns out that Lizzie is the oldest of three kids. Her younger siblings Juan (Gustavo Quiroz) and Lita (Julianna Gamiz) are adorable, if quirky. Ellie and Pete decide to bring the kids home.

At first, everything goes swimmingly, but Ellie and Pete soon learn that it was just a “honeymoon phase:” Lizzie reveals her worst teenage attitude and the quirks of the younger kids morph into daily trials and tantrums.

Just as the dust is settling, Lizzie, Juan and Lita’s birth mother gets released from jail. She initiates visits and begins the legal process to get her kids back. Will Pete and Ellie have to let go of the kids they’ve grown to love?

Instant Family is available for streaming on Amazon and other services. A note to parents: although there are kids in this one, it’s definitely not appropriate for kids under 13.

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SCBBC Launches Showtime In Paradise The future of basketball in the greater Virgin Islands was on full display over the weekend at the Multipurpose Sports Complex, when the Sea Cows Bay Basketball Club launched its 9-12 and 13-15 Showtime in Paradise Basketball Tournament, featuring teams from St. Thomas and Tortola, as part of the club’s 25th Anniversary activities.

Milton McLean founded the club on April 1, 1994 and the tournament came ahead of an April 4-11 trip to Orlando, to participate in the CNBA South King Basketball Classic.

The weekend tournament though, belonged to St. Thomas’ Nuff Respect, who was head and shoulders above everyone else and it was a great learning opportunity for the BVI teams, that McLean has been developing.

Led by Vincent Frett Jr.’s 17 points and six rebounds, Nuff Respect began play with a 36-15 victory over St. Thomas counterpart Zero Tolerance on Friday night, while BVI Strong overpowered Tola Ballers, 3111.

On Saturday, Zero Tolerance turned back Tola Ballers, 26-6, while Nuff Respect rolled past turnover prone BVI Strong, 28-4.

“I think the tournament had great promise behind it and I can tell the organizers wanted the best for these youths and to see them do good and their love for the game of basketball,” Nuff Respect’s coach Kishawn Calendar said. “I was happy that we were invited over and we were able to showcase our talent against some of the best BVI players.”

Calendar said he saw lots of potential in the BVI players and encouraged them to practice, practice, practice.

“That’s what our team does—practice yearround, at least twice a week, sometimes up to four,” he noted. “With practice you learn more about basketball and more about life. It makes you a better person and first and foremost, a better basketball player.”

McLean said he thought the tournament was very exciting and would have liked to see more fans coming out and supporting the BVI teams.

“We didn’t have a home field advantage,” he noted. “We played in the BVI, but we didn’t have that support and I think that would have been awesome. The parents, referees and scorers came out and did a very good job and I’m very happy about it.”

McLean said when he looked at the talent levels, he recognized that in order to improve the talent level in the BVI, they must train and practice and they must be on top of their game. He said the players who represented the BVI were thrown together and they didn’t have solid practices.

“We need to improve in that area and we need the public, parents and everybody, to really support these kids going forward,” he said. “That will help them improve in many different ways.”

Among awards doled out, Nuff Respect’s Vern Frett Jr. scored the most points, had the most rebounds and was named tournament MVP. Zero Tolerance’s Kareem Pinnoy and the BVI’ Strong’s D’jahniah Pemberton, were the tournament’s Most Exciting Players.

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How to win: The object is to insert numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once.

It’s harder than it sounds!

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